? A South Carolina school district will return to its library shelves Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about antisemitism, nearly a year after it was removed following a parental complaint. (JTA)
? J. Robert Oppenheimer met with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to discuss Israel’s nuclear quest, according to declassified documents in the Israeli state archives. (Haaretz)
? Activists affiliated with IfNotNow, a group opposed to the Israeli occupation, launched a campaign Tuesday to pressure Democratic New York members of Congress to refuse endorsements and financial contributions from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. (Forward)
?? Hungarian Jews are accusing the Chabad movement of usurping control of their community organization — and its funding and real estate, including a historic synagogue — with the aid of the Hungarian government. (JTA)
? The Kansas State and University of Arizona men’s basketball teams are set to travel to Israel and the United Arab Emirates next week to play several exhibition games and tour both countries. (Jewish Link)
?️ Doug Emhoff, the second gentleman of the United States, on Thursday visited Cedar Lake Camp in Milford, Pennsylvania, the Jewish camp where he spent his teen summers, to talk about antisemitism. The camp, where Emhoff was voted most athletic in 1978, named a soccer field after him. (Twitter)
? Former Bachelorette contestant Gabby Windey revealed she’s now dating a woman, Robby Hoffman, a Jewish comedian who grew up Hasidic in Brooklyn. (Hey Alma, Hollywood Reporter)
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